Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
What did you do?
If possible, provide a recipe for reproducing the error.
A complete runnable program is good.
A link on play.golang.org is best.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
)
func main() {
f, err := os.Create("target")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
err = f.Close()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer os.Remove("target")
err = os.Symlink("target", "symlink")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer os.Remove("symlink")
st1, err := os.Lstat("symlink")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
st2, err := os.Lstat("target")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(os.SameFile(st1, st2))
}
What did you expect to see?
false
What did you see instead?
true
Does this issue reproduce with the latest release (go1.9)?
I think so.
System details
go version go1.8 windows/amd64
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=".exe"
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="windows"
GOOS="windows"
GOPATH="C:\Users\Hiroshi\gopath"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="C:\Go"
GOTOOLDIR="C:\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-m64 -mthreads -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\Hiroshi\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build553453167=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
GOROOT/bin/go version: go version go1.8 windows/amd64
GOROOT/bin/go tool compile -V: compile version go1.8 X:framepointer
gdb --version: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.12
Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
What did you do?
If possible, provide a recipe for reproducing the error.
A complete runnable program is good.
A link on play.golang.org is best.
What did you expect to see?
false
What did you see instead?
true
Does this issue reproduce with the latest release (go1.9)?
I think so.
System details